I'm sure this has probably been answered already, but the search is less than agreeable at the moment. I've been looking through the datasheets of a wide variety of alloys but am hoping someone here can help speed up my search. I need a material with a high magnetic permeability but very low...
At this point I have a cylindrical dipole electromagnet with a 1008 steel core and encasement (no exposed copper wire, just a steel cylinder). I imagine the magnetic field looks like what I have depicted in Figure A below. My question is this: Is there a way to reconfigure the magnet so that...